> On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, Chet Ramey wrote:
>
> > > [...] and there appear to
> > > be no options at all to turn this superfluous output off.
> >
> > This is, as Eric Blake noted, required POSIX behavior. As to the manual:
>
> It is an interesting position for POSIX to take, given that in general
> Unix is silent on success.
It's the logical thing to do, considering the potential ambiguity that
exists when you use a directory selected from CDPATH. The illogical thing
is that POSIX requires the output even when the shell is not interactive.
> Does POSIX forbid an option "to turn this superfluous output off", as
> Tony Balinski put it?
Redirect stdout to /dev/null. That's the conventional way to rid yourself
of superfluous output.
Chet
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